• J Lou
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    19 months ago

    It was a good question. I am limited in response length because I am on Mastodon.

    In terms of social dynamics of a stateless society, The Possibility of Cooperation by the game theorist Michael Taylor uses game theory to argue against the Hobbesian case for the state. Radical Markets by E. Glen Weyl covers how to do common ownership with minimal administration @memes

    • @Axiochus
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      29 months ago

      Thank you for the sources! I’ll take a look eventually. Since both sources seem to interface with rational choice theory, there’s probably a cool post-Homansian social network analysis angle that can be explored. I.e. how the weights & pathways of available choices can be modulated by the types of ties between people. I guess I’d expect entity-level decisions to be shaped by emergent structures, regardless of what their initial state was. So, a co-op could become something else entirely over time, regardless of what it says on the can. It’s super neat that my Marxist thought is exploring these areas as well (sorry for the label!).